Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, seasoned mainly with paprika.
- n. A mixture of many different elements; a hodgepodge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See gulash.
Wiktionary
- n. A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
- n. bridge A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika
Etymologies
- From Hungarian gulyás. (Wiktionary)
- Hungarian gulyás (hús), herdsman's (meat), goulash, from gulya, herdsman. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The races of gubernatorial goulash is gettin 'great attention, these days, and the fights have also been fierce in some states.”
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“And don't forget some of Mama Joly's fumbles---lemon extract mistaken for vanilla in chocolate chip cookies (surprisingly not-bad); cayenne pepper for paprika in Hungarian goulash (a little might have been nice) . . .”
“My mom made a casserole she called goulash," a friend told me.”
“Wallace intended it as sort of the beginning of a series of "quick questions," but Beck goes into some long, incomprehensible word goulash recitation where he says, he realized "I'm not seeing something because I have eyes.”
“We tried the stag goulash, a hearty venison stew with fluffy bread dumplings.”
“Last night I made a big pot of what our family calls goulash ground beef, onions, garlic, stewed tomatoes, some italian seasoning, pasta and corn.”
“Hungary provide more and more material incentives, called goulash communism, pardon the expression, that increasingly the socialist world will have to give more and more material incentives to overcome the contradictions and the problems of central planning.”
“A great deal of this food supply was sent in the form of canned meat, popularly known as goulash, and so to-day whenever an automobile passes on a Danish road, the small boys call out "goulash Baron," in the belief that the occupant is a new-made millionaire, enriched by trade with”
“But the reality of Czech cooking is that the goulash is a few pieces of stringy meat covered with gluey brown gravy; on the side is a gigantic white dumpling, served in slices that have the taste and texture of soggy Wonder Bread.”
“In middle school, when I ran a babysitting monopoly in my subdivision, the mom at the far end of the street used to prepare tiny tupperwares labelled with "goulash" for me to heat up and feed the kids.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goulash’.
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Additional 250 Spelling Words
Words for the diehard intermediate and advanced spellers
facetiae, sagittary, anthophilous, hydromancy, pandect, carillonneur, tabbouleh, litterateur, windgall, pinguid, tressure, moderne and 238 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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Intertanglement
A list of bejumble and minglement.
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Main Courses
fried liver, steak, fillet of beef, veal cutlets, saute meat, grilled meatballs, mixed grills, roast meat, lamb chops, macaroni, ravioli, rice pilaff and 7 more...
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O before U.
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Ugliest Sounding Words
List words that sound ugly, regardless of meaning
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Kalli's Words
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Fun Food Names
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Awesome Words, Part 2: More Common
pilgrim, indubitably, incorrigible, bombastic, histrionics, depredation, perspicuity, discombobulate, peregrination, ambulatory, redux, fractious and 164 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (G)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
gable, gaia, gala, galaxy, gallows, gambol, garden, garland, garnet, gauntlet, gazebo, gazelle and 105 more...
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English Words of Hungarian Origin
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
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